Installation :: Non-supported platforms 
<h2>Installing DMDirc on other platforms</h2>
<p>
 Currently, DMDirc has installers for Windows, Linux, and as of
 DMDirc 0.6, OS X. Users of other platforms will have to manually
 install DMDirc in order to use it.
</p>
<p>
 First, download the "Java archive" release from the
 <a href="../downloads">downloads page</a>. This file contains the
 entire DMDirc application, and all of its associated resources, and
 can be ran using Java directly without extraction.
</p>
<h3>Running</h3>
<p>
 To run DMDirc, you just invoke the Java runtime environment with the
 -jar instruction to tell it the location of the DMDirc jar file.
 For example, if you are using a unix-like operating system, and
 the DMDirc jar file is in your home directory, you would use a
 command like the following:
</p>
<pre>$ ls DMDirc*.jar
DMDirc-0.5.5.jar
$ java -jar DMDirc-0.5.5.jar</pre>
<p>
 You may wish to create a shortcut to execute Java in this manner, to save 
 time when launching DMDirc in the future.
</p>
<h3>Advanced: handling irc:// URLs</h3>
<p>
 If your operating system supports it, you can manually register DMDirc
 as the protocol handler for irc:// URLs. The process for actually registering
 the handler is extremely platform specific, but the arguments needed when
 invoking DMDirc are the same on any platform:
</p>
<pre>$ java -jar DMDirc-0.5.5.jar -e -c irc://server/channel</pre>
<p>
 The -e switch tells DMDirc to reuse an existing instance if possible,
 and the -c switch tells it to connect to the specified server and channel.
</p>
